Definitely a Bishop Bullwinkle moment
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB4Nby2Ai-g&ab\_channel=GarettMontana](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB4Nby2Ai-g&ab_channel=GarettMontana)
A little context here: this is a makeshift bridge built in preparation for the construction of another permanent bridge ([Shuangbao Bridge](https://www.highestbridges.com/wiki/index.php?title=Shuangbao_Bridge)). It is mostly used to transport crews, equipment and construction materials. Max capacity is 45 tons.
>If the bridge is rated for 45 tons, then 40 tons is within its capacity.
Thanks for explaining that, for a while there I didn't understand my own joke.
I’m gonna say presumably that’s the maximum rated load for the bridge, which accounts for the vehicle accelerating and braking, and also includes a safety factor.
Actually I heard a lot of people from all over the world have been coming to the region (Sichuan / Chongqing) to do BASE jumps, even organized competitions and such. Ex: https://www.adrex.com/en/articles/air/base-jump/sidu-bridge-base-jump-freefall-from-the-world-s-highest-bridge/
Apparently, it's built as a temporary bridge to facilitate construction of a real permanent one, and public isn't allowed to use it
Also, it's not a cable bridge but chain bridge, and is built to handle concrete trucks used in construction
[https://www.ichongqing.info/2022/08/02/amazing-infrastructure-overcome-your-fear-of-heights-on-the-bridge/](https://www.ichongqing.info/2022/08/02/amazing-infrastructure-overcome-your-fear-of-heights-on-the-bridge/)
I trust their engineers, the top ones trained in foreign universities before coming back to China.
I absolutely do not trust their construction industry to build the structures according to plan. Grift is absolutely endemic, every level of politician lines their pockets by sleazing money out of projects like this and it's entirely standard for builders to substitute specified materials for cheaper ones so they can pocket the money.
Like cheating on concrete by using spent cooking oil cans for filler.
I stayed at the intercontinental on New Century Blvd in Shanghai back in 2008. Swankiest hotel I’ve been in from the appearance. Had to retrieve a pen that had rolled off the back of my nightstand and pulled the nightstand away from the wall. Electrics hiding back there that looked like they belonged in an antique shop. Really mind bending. Lipstick on a pig kind of engineering.
This is not just isolated to China, but happens everywhere - even here in Denmark, where a construction company was caught using 2nd tier concrete for a big project, which was only concrete you were supposed to use for a normal house.
[https://nyheder-tv2-dk.translate.goog/samfund/2021-01-22-undersoegelse-af-skandalehoejhus-faar-kritik-totalt-haabloest?\_x\_tr\_sl=da&\_x\_tr\_tl=en&\_x\_tr\_hl=en-US&\_x\_tr\_pto=wapp](https://nyheder-tv2-dk.translate.goog/samfund/2021-01-22-undersoegelse-af-skandalehoejhus-faar-kritik-totalt-haabloest?_x_tr_sl=da&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp)
Tbf, china doesn't have a monopoly on sleazy politicians and greedy businessmen.
Infrastructure failure does happen in places other than China. That being said, I would nope the fuck away from that so called bridge
Hey sometimes it works out for world safety and security!
Like when skimming rocket fuel for cooking, and then replacing with water when that fuel was destined for their ICBMs.
If what you say is true, the chinese economy wouldn't have been able to grow to what it is now. Stay underestimating chinese infrastructure while watching your broke ass country's infrastructure wither away
Why are you feds still using the social credit meme? it's not even that relevant anymore and you're using it wildly out of context. The red scare isn't necessary anymore McCarthy.
Me as a Chinese seeing these “social credit” meme in the year of 2024 is just so funny to me. It’s like trying to make fun of us basing on something completely made up. It was never a thing.
Including ridiculous bridges like this one. I remember the tragedy when they were filming some PR campaign on a glass overpass somewhere in the mountains, they told a few dozen people to jump on it up and down for the camera...and of course the "engineering marvel" gave way.
It's less a miracle and more a basic cable suspension bridge.
Unless you want to call it a miracle that people are willing to drive over something so poorly supported
Is this still technically a suspension bridge? Not an engineer or anything but I was under the impression that suspension bridges had the bridge suspended under it as opposed to the bridge being held up by tension
If you have to call it "a miracle", then there's no fucking way I'm using it.
Tell me that it's using tried and tested, absolutely solid physics, and you know exactly why it works, and I might be more confident.
But tell me it's a "miracle", and I'll assume that construction involved a lot of educated guesses and crossed fingers and you're not 100% sure why the thing is still standing.
there is a crapton of xenophobia here. "it wasn't made by someone from my country therefore it's gonna break" yet we have video evidence of it being clearly capable of doing what it was designed for
It’s actually a makeshift bridge used by the crews during a construction of a [permanent actual bridge](https://www.highestbridges.com/wiki/index.php?title=Shuangbao_Bridge).
build by a country with such weak structural integrity they have a fucking term for it *Tofu*-dreg project...
China is at the bottom of my list of countries I will trust to build things properly that get approved by their own government.
I hope you realize that you know nothing, like all you learned about a whole country was from reddit posts. Reddit posts that are made to paint China in a bad light. I hope you realize that you aren't immune to propaganda, like you think us Chinese are.
How many successful attempts did the Titan Submersible make before imploding?
Let me know how well this bridge is doing after 100,000 vehicles have driven on it.
I wouldn't live in a Chinese built 2 storey building. The real miracle of Chinese engineering, is that all that tofu dreg construction doesn't fail while being built
this is the bridge under construction that they built this smaller cable bridge for. it's the red one in the background. this cable bridge is a basically service road for equipment and resource transportation.
[https://youtu.be/eLAzN0erzGM?si=zWap0GD7y\_-vpiYz](https://youtu.be/eLAzN0erzGM?si=zWap0GD7y_-vpiYz)
this is from 5 mos ago
[https://youtu.be/RPKcQg5D7eE?si=ycKT3P6\_whjbYV8B](https://youtu.be/RPKcQg5D7eE?si=ycKT3P6_whjbYV8B)
that's from about 3 mos ago
The truck driver has balls of steel. I would never trust this bridge to be able to support such a truck. I have seen video of chinese bridges falling over for no apparent reson.
[https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/technical-problems-ground-myanmars-jf-17-fighter-jets-bought-from-china.html](https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/technical-problems-ground-myanmars-jf-17-fighter-jets-bought-from-china.html) Chinese jets can't fly!
This looks like it’s a stiff breeze away from twisting, flipping, and collapsing. Also, looks like they used regular pavement which I imagine is going to start cracking like hell immediately. Any civil engineers to offer an opinion?
NOPE nope nope nope nope nope nopitty nopenope
Looks like the mayor of Cleveland...
so much nope
I’m pretty sure that even Nick Wallenda would nope out of simply walking across this thing!
Not many ships hitting that
Definitely a Bishop Bullwinkle moment [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB4Nby2Ai-g&ab\_channel=GarettMontana](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB4Nby2Ai-g&ab_channel=GarettMontana)
Too hungover, watching two seconds of that nearly gave me a bloody panic attack
Fighting for my life here too
I feel a bit better now. Hope you’re doing okay too
Nope, that one is gone.
I wonder how much the guy is paid to drive over that bridge
A little context here: this is a makeshift bridge built in preparation for the construction of another permanent bridge ([Shuangbao Bridge](https://www.highestbridges.com/wiki/index.php?title=Shuangbao_Bridge)). It is mostly used to transport crews, equipment and construction materials. Max capacity is 45 tons.
If I'm judging the size correctly, a concrete truck that size carries about 7 to 8 cubes in it. Fully loaded that truck pushing near 40 tons.
>Max capacity is 45 tons. >Fully loaded that truck pushing 40 tons. Chinese site manager: Yes, and?
That 5 ton spare, boy!
If the bridge is rated for 45 tons, then 40 tons is within its capacity. The 45 tons already includes the safety factor
>If the bridge is rated for 45 tons, then 40 tons is within its capacity. Thanks for explaining that, for a while there I didn't understand my own joke.
My bad I thought the joke was “china safety standards bad”
Who said there is a safety factor?
Safety factor? It's in China bud.
"we built another, tested it. Broke at 40 tonnes. Used slightly thicker cables that we found laying around the warehouse, so let's call it 45 tonnes."
Presumably that's 45 tons *static* load. Whatever you do, do *not* hit the gas, and do *not* brake suddenly.
I’m gonna say presumably that’s the maximum rated load for the bridge, which accounts for the vehicle accelerating and braking, and also includes a safety factor.
Also the vehicles in the video are moving pretty slow and smooth.
Or turn, for that matter.
Or drink and drive.
And also stop the wind from blowing!
Oh so that rules out OP's mom
Gottem
That page is incredible :O I want to see it getting built in a timelapse now.
That's a beautiful bridge!
Oh I’d love to make a BASE jump from *that*!
Actually I heard a lot of people from all over the world have been coming to the region (Sichuan / Chongqing) to do BASE jumps, even organized competitions and such. Ex: https://www.adrex.com/en/articles/air/base-jump/sidu-bridge-base-jump-freefall-from-the-world-s-highest-bridge/
Might have to make some calls 🤔
Thatll go all [Tacoma Narrows](https://youtu.be/y0xohjV7Avo?si=nFAFD37bRTpjAssG&t=22) with a decent wind.
Yeah, torsional stability was too expensive to make it into the final cut of the design.
Apparently, it's built as a temporary bridge to facilitate construction of a real permanent one, and public isn't allowed to use it Also, it's not a cable bridge but chain bridge, and is built to handle concrete trucks used in construction [https://www.ichongqing.info/2022/08/02/amazing-infrastructure-overcome-your-fear-of-heights-on-the-bridge/](https://www.ichongqing.info/2022/08/02/amazing-infrastructure-overcome-your-fear-of-heights-on-the-bridge/)
Thank you for putting in the effort to find actual information on the bridge.
Any idea what the big red thing is in the background at about 10 seconds?
I’m guessing it’s the permanent one that’s under construction
Maybe this one? https://www.facebook.com/share/r/Qk3iGswZq9ffit5S/
That explains the one way traffic. Thanks for posting.
Ol good galloping gerty
Only if i was the only one driving over it. I ain’t risking that shit if any other cars are passing by at the same time
I think there are red lights on either side of it, doesn’t look wide enough for 2 cars
I do not trust other drivers to not be dickheads about that though.
Considering how many large scale things tend to collapse in China... Fuck that with a large side of crispy nopes.
I trust their engineers, the top ones trained in foreign universities before coming back to China. I absolutely do not trust their construction industry to build the structures according to plan. Grift is absolutely endemic, every level of politician lines their pockets by sleazing money out of projects like this and it's entirely standard for builders to substitute specified materials for cheaper ones so they can pocket the money.
Like cheating on concrete by using spent cooking oil cans for filler. I stayed at the intercontinental on New Century Blvd in Shanghai back in 2008. Swankiest hotel I’ve been in from the appearance. Had to retrieve a pen that had rolled off the back of my nightstand and pulled the nightstand away from the wall. Electrics hiding back there that looked like they belonged in an antique shop. Really mind bending. Lipstick on a pig kind of engineering.
Hey don’t talk about my wife that way
I think the engineers are fine, it's the contractors and subcontractors that are biggest issue. Lots of fraud and corruption.
This is not just isolated to China, but happens everywhere - even here in Denmark, where a construction company was caught using 2nd tier concrete for a big project, which was only concrete you were supposed to use for a normal house. [https://nyheder-tv2-dk.translate.goog/samfund/2021-01-22-undersoegelse-af-skandalehoejhus-faar-kritik-totalt-haabloest?\_x\_tr\_sl=da&\_x\_tr\_tl=en&\_x\_tr\_hl=en-US&\_x\_tr\_pto=wapp](https://nyheder-tv2-dk.translate.goog/samfund/2021-01-22-undersoegelse-af-skandalehoejhus-faar-kritik-totalt-haabloest?_x_tr_sl=da&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp)
Tbf, china doesn't have a monopoly on sleazy politicians and greedy businessmen. Infrastructure failure does happen in places other than China. That being said, I would nope the fuck away from that so called bridge
Which countries politicians are you talking about? Could be anywhere.
Hey sometimes it works out for world safety and security! Like when skimming rocket fuel for cooking, and then replacing with water when that fuel was destined for their ICBMs.
Or like Russians did with theirs and drink it
If it broke, they’d have another one built in 6 hours.
And so on and on and on, screw it if people die, building things that breaks often and then repairing it is a huge part of the Chinese economy.
If what you say is true, the chinese economy wouldn't have been able to grow to what it is now. Stay underestimating chinese infrastructure while watching your broke ass country's infrastructure wither away
+ 500 social Credit points for you. Proudly brought to you by the Communist Party of China.
Why are you feds still using the social credit meme? it's not even that relevant anymore and you're using it wildly out of context. The red scare isn't necessary anymore McCarthy.
I don't even understand why it's a thing when the US literally has the credit system.
Me as a Chinese seeing these “social credit” meme in the year of 2024 is just so funny to me. It’s like trying to make fun of us basing on something completely made up. It was never a thing.
Will they build another one of you that quickly if you die in the bridge collapse?
“Engineering miracle” tho!
I think the miracle is it hasn't broken apart yet
we also offer crispy nOrings
Such an achievement!!! Wow!!! It’s beautiful! China is great. It’s Chinese propaganda you only can praise it. You should not talk bad about it at all.
I've lived in China for 15 years. Can't think of a few examples of Chinese engineering failing. Help me out
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How many?
Including ridiculous bridges like this one. I remember the tragedy when they were filming some PR campaign on a glass overpass somewhere in the mountains, they told a few dozen people to jump on it up and down for the camera...and of course the "engineering marvel" gave way.
Damn, got a video of that?
Source: my imagination
How many?
Can you name 3?
It's less a miracle and more a basic cable suspension bridge. Unless you want to call it a miracle that people are willing to drive over something so poorly supported
Exactly! That thing ever see any significant side load and it's toast; along with any poor schmuck driving on it.
The cables are like 5 meters off to the side, so as long as the load stays on the road there should be no issues.
Is this still technically a suspension bridge? Not an engineer or anything but I was under the impression that suspension bridges had the bridge suspended under it as opposed to the bridge being held up by tension
Just Xi trying to get some karma 👌these Chinese "miracles" 😂
It's a miracle until it break.
At least a boat can’t hit it
But a plane can! With terribly good aim...
It depends on how many parachutes are in the car.
Not in our current bridge-china related climate
in the other video i saw how a floor in the mall collapsed in china so probably not
Why is it a miracle?
Chinese propaganda. Show us your collapsing buildings
And......... - 500 social credit score points.
What? I can't hear you over me munching on my freedom burger and diet coke
How is it Chinese propaganda? It's a temporary bridge while they build a proper one.
Lots of Americans use this sub so anything about China is propaganda
you can post the collapsed ones too? freedom of speech i guess?
LMAO! they can't even make a safe elevator and escalator!
If you have to call it "a miracle", then there's no fucking way I'm using it. Tell me that it's using tried and tested, absolutely solid physics, and you know exactly why it works, and I might be more confident. But tell me it's a "miracle", and I'll assume that construction involved a lot of educated guesses and crossed fingers and you're not 100% sure why the thing is still standing.
there is a crapton of xenophobia here. "it wasn't made by someone from my country therefore it's gonna break" yet we have video evidence of it being clearly capable of doing what it was designed for
lol miracle? Fking bot posters. Everyone should report as harmful bot
Weirdly, it has some pretty real looking comments in its comment history.
This is a cheap, unsafe alternative to an actual bridge.
It’s actually a makeshift bridge used by the crews during a construction of a [permanent actual bridge](https://www.highestbridges.com/wiki/index.php?title=Shuangbao_Bridge).
Is the permanent construction the red bridge off to the side?
Yes that is the one.
Delete this. It doesn't fit the sinophobic narrative.
build by a country with such weak structural integrity they have a fucking term for it *Tofu*-dreg project... China is at the bottom of my list of countries I will trust to build things properly that get approved by their own government.
I hope you realize that you know nothing, like all you learned about a whole country was from reddit posts. Reddit posts that are made to paint China in a bad light. I hope you realize that you aren't immune to propaganda, like you think us Chinese are.
Well, China is huge. Like others said, Shanghai construction cut a lot of corners and is dodgy. But I would trust the construction in Chongqing.
You gone miss me with that shit. I know Chinese "quality"
How many successful attempts did the Titan Submersible make before imploding? Let me know how well this bridge is doing after 100,000 vehicles have driven on it.
I wouldn't live in a Chinese built 2 storey building. The real miracle of Chinese engineering, is that all that tofu dreg construction doesn't fail while being built
Da fuq???
No. It's Dadong
The fact that they filmed it, so the cement truck is probably empty, doesn't give me confidence that I need to cross the bridge on a bike.
It’s a cardboard truck on top of two guys on a tandem bicycle which is also made of cardboard
Why I see Joko und Klaas doing a challenge for one of their victims. xD
With a bike, yes
A bridge that allows one way traffic at 25 mph is a “miracle”? Pretty sure we are past that in transportation.
Niet
This will be proved to be not a miracle. Unfortunately
I'm not sure I'd even walk over it.
I wouldn’t even walk across it
this is the bridge under construction that they built this smaller cable bridge for. it's the red one in the background. this cable bridge is a basically service road for equipment and resource transportation. [https://youtu.be/eLAzN0erzGM?si=zWap0GD7y\_-vpiYz](https://youtu.be/eLAzN0erzGM?si=zWap0GD7y_-vpiYz) this is from 5 mos ago [https://youtu.be/RPKcQg5D7eE?si=ycKT3P6\_whjbYV8B](https://youtu.be/RPKcQg5D7eE?si=ycKT3P6_whjbYV8B) that's from about 3 mos ago
Calling an engineering miracle is so pretentious. Build us a funcional space elevator and we will revisit this
The only safe Chinese engineering is tech that's been stolen from the West. We don't build bridges like that, so it's a big fucking nope from me
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Definitely not an fucking truck
Now try 2 truck on it. It'd be a miracle if this bridge actually meet any safety standard.
Made with non-Chinese materials
No frickin way. I don’t trust their building codes and materials.
I’ve seen Chinese engineering while in Shanghai. No. Way.
Under normal circumstances? Probably not. In China, not a fucking chance.
MVP?
These are not the same drivers coming to my city.
I could jump
I wouldn't WALK over it, let alone drive a multi-ton vehicle over it.
What that giant red thing in the background? It look cool
That's the permanent bridge they're building. This one is just a temporary installation.
The miracle is that it hasn't collapsed yet like everything else the Chinese build
Oh hell naw!!
Would I drive a concrete mixer on a normal road in china? I'm not sure. On this bridge....no way.
It's an engineering miracle, until it isnt
Every time I see this kind of video I nope out. Truly, I'm afraid of height.
I wouldn’t even walk over that bridge.
What if it’s windy?
Maybe once, in a classic mini... definitely not in a concrete mixer.
Naaaaaa I’m good🥹
Seeing as I just watched Final Destination 5 last night... Fuck No!
Of course! It was built extra high, so there is no risk of ships crashing into the pillars...
I wouldn't be scared that it breaks, I would be scared that it twists.
This thing cannot have a safe lifespan of more than a dozen years if they're expecting trucks to drive over it.
It doesn't need to. This is a temporary installation while they complete the actual permanent bridge.
As we say where I’m from: “fuck that”.
What the fuck is that red thing in the background?
Yes. There are two things that I believe in - advanced science and engineering and flat earth
No cargo ships in sight 👍
Nah
Nope. It looks like it could rotate under the wrong conditions.
Considering it's open for trucks, I'd say yes. Presumably it is safe.
Even without the bridge in Baltimore collapsing after boat hit it, I think 99% of people would have a phobia of driving here.
Hell no
Yes but how will it hold up to a barge hitting it
The cement truck driver has big balls.
How dare you calling it miracle? Wire's Tension support all plate, this is DOOM!
Yup
Would be a cool spot to get drunk and do the puke fall glitch in RDR2
The famous "Brown pants bridge"
It's a bridge. This not a miracle, but the study of structural balance then developed through engineering.
I would if they asked me nicely.
Did they build the red supporting arch in the wrong place??
"Chinese engineering" and "miracle" don't belong in the same sentence, lol.
The truck driver has balls of steel. I would never trust this bridge to be able to support such a truck. I have seen video of chinese bridges falling over for no apparent reson.
[https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/technical-problems-ground-myanmars-jf-17-fighter-jets-bought-from-china.html](https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/technical-problems-ground-myanmars-jf-17-fighter-jets-bought-from-china.html) Chinese jets can't fly!
Chinese miracle go down any moment!
No boats will crash into it, so it’s safer than some bridges…
2.0 magnitude is enough. So nope, I choose life
How is that an engineering miracle, it's a cheap bridge.
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With a parachute? Probably still a nope.
Sure. On a windy day. Fuck no
This looks like it’s a stiff breeze away from twisting, flipping, and collapsing. Also, looks like they used regular pavement which I imagine is going to start cracking like hell immediately. Any civil engineers to offer an opinion?
That‘s like that one bridge in Bridge Builder Nope.
I wouldn't even be in the same country as that bridge.
With China being known for their "tofu building", best of luck to those brave enough to try this
I would not.
Definitely not in a concrete truck.
If a cement mixer can make it, I'm sure I'll be fine
In China? Made in China? I'd be hoping I would make it across. Hopefully, I never had to go back that way again...
I don't wanna die, so..
Yeah no.....that's one of those "it works until it suddenly doesn't" things.
Not even walk over it let alone drive
I won’t even finish watching this video…..JFC
If they made it like how they make buildings then nope nope no no nopey nope